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Artemisia annua |
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Asteraceae (Compositae) |
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Qing Hao |
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(qing means green; the dark green leaves at the top of the plant are the most active portion, which might account for this designation; hao, indicates this type of plant, one characteristic being a tall stalk; hao is used to depict several other Artemisia species) |
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Sweet Artemisia, Sweet Annie, Sweet Wormwood (sweet refers to the fragrance, not the taste), Ching-hao (based on Wade-Giles transliteration) |
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Aerial Part or Entire Plant
(collected in autumn, when in full blossom; older stems removed) |
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Bitter, Pungent |
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Cold |
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Clear heat and resolve summer heat, eliminate deficiency heat, cool blood |
| Traditional Chinese applications |
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Alternating fever and chill (associated with malaria), residual low grade fever after seasonal feverish disease; feverish feeling due to deficient yin (especially afternoon fever and intermittent feverish feeling); fever in general; mental cloudiness and headache |
| Possible unwanted effects |
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Large doses may cause nausea |
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None reported |
| TCM and other contraindications |
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Cold from deficiency of spleen and stomach; blood deficiency in post-partum women |
